Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 763 |
| AUTHOR: | William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) |
| QUOTATION: | The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol. |
| SUBJECTS: | Government—by the people |